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$4,000 for Injuries After Prison Staff Ignore Bottom Bunk Directive
Loaded on Jan. 3, 2018
by Lonnie Burton
Filed under:
Skeletal Injury,
Injury -- Misc.,
Failure to Protect (General),
Failure to Protect (Staff).
Location:
Michigan.
by Lonnie Burton
On August 18, 2015, the state of Michigan agreed to pay a prisoner $4,000 to settle a lawsuit in which prison staff deliberately ignored a medically-issued "bottom bunk detail" and the prisoner later fell from the top bunk injuring his shoulder.
Timothy Murphy had …
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